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h hello. welcome to a new hour of inside america's news headquarters. topping the news this hour, tempers are flaring on capitol hill. house republicans just now wrapping up a rally demanding the senate get back to work right now. this as a government shutdown draws near. and the disturbing new report on a new layer of snooping by the nsa using social networks to create a mapping program of your every move. and some parents making a hard push for new technology that could help save the lives of hundreds of children.
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we begin with a fox news alert. the clock is ticking away as the deadline is looming large. we are less than 32 hours away from what could be the first government shutdown in almost two decades. despite working overtime this weekend, congress still has no deal at all to fund the government beyond midnight tomorrow. and the rhetoric from both sides , well, it is red-hot. chief congressional correspondent mike immanuel is live on capitol hill. >> with time running out the senate has taken the weekend off. house speaker john boehner blasted the decision saying,ett qo, if the senate stalls in monday afternoon it would be an act of breathtaking arrogance by the senate democratic leadership. house lawmakers passed a continuing resolution to fund the government until december 15th, late night. it would delay obamacare a year and repeal the medical device tax part of the law.
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a short time ago house lawmakers on the senate steps of the capitol expressed their frustration. >> i feel like oh brer where art thou, but it is oh senate where art thou? they are pre occupied to work yesterday and too busy to come back today. what they are trying to do is shutdown the government. this is what president barack obama wants. >> leading democrats say they are starting to think we are heading for a government shutdown. the one component if you will that is not controversial of the house gop plan is the idea of repealing the tax on items such as wheelchairs and other medical equipment. a top senate democrat was asked about that part of the gop plan. >> i support taking a look at the medical device tax. keep in mind though that we anticipate millions of more patients using medical devices with some profit associated with it to the medical device
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companies. that's why the tax is there. but i'm willing to look at that, but not with a gun to my head. >> baring some last-minute change, the united states senate is not due to come back until tomorrow afternoon. some 10 hours before a possible government shutdown. greg? >> gun to the head is quite the metaphor being used. frequently on capitol hill and many more. mike emmanuel thanks etch have. thanks etch have. growing concern about benjamin netanyahu meeting with president obama at the white house where he ispected ts fears of a nuclear iran. james rosen has more from washington. >> greetings where conservatives are expressing profound skepticism about iran and the motives and the white house is too. in the historic phone call president obama told iranian president and they believe iran has a right to peaceful nuclear energy.
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he urged rouhani to comply with international law. on thursday the top diplomats from the five u.n. security council states, germany and iran, met in new york and that was a first since 1979. the iranian diplomat who attended the session responded to comments from secretary of state john kerry who urminged iran to open -- who urged iran to open up the closed facilities and stop then itch ared level. >> secretary kerry does not want to dictate what we should or should not do. >> he claimed the iranians have never been pursuing a nuclear weapon and tweeted lyndsay graham of south carolina. also on sunday, president obama 's top national security aid discussed the prospects for the eventual normalization of nations like washington and tehran. >> it is way too soon to presume either the prospect of an agreement on the nuclear
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program which we hope to be able to achieve, but we are quite sober about the potential for that. and that would obviously need to be a first step before going on to discuss other aspects of the u.s.-iranian relationship which has a long way to go to get to the state of normalization. >> the next round of nuclear talks will be held in geneva in october. greg? >> james rosen in washington, thanks. and as tensions mount between israel and iran, what role will the u.s. play? we are going to talk about it with fox news contributor coming up in a few minutes. in the meantime, new revelations of government snooping and this time by looking at what americans are doing on social media these days. the new york times is reporting that it has uncovered documents on the nsa showing that agency has been exploiting its vast collections of information on american citizens. the goal is to map out social connection locations.
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travel by creating sophisticated graphs and diagrams. the newspaper reports that this has been going on for almost three years. syrian al-assad saying he will respect a u.n resolution to eliminate his stockpile of chemical weapons. the plan of course calls for syria to either remove on are destroy the sarin gas by the middle of next year and they have come under fire because it does not outline any consequences whatsoever. that's if he refuses to comply or otherwise fails. this comes as a team of u.n chemical weapons inspectors plan to brap up their investigation in syria after spending the last week looking into seven case of alleged chemical or biological weapons using three incidents that occurred after the august 21st attack that killed more than a thousand people. >> a disturbing report says
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kenya was warned about a terror threat in advance before this masacre at the nairobi mall. they say the high ranking kenyan officials received info about a plan to carry out a major terrorist attack. they are armed with automatic weapons and storming the mall last weekend. that attack lasted four long days killing at least 67 people. the shopping mall is partly owned by israelis and long considered a prime terrorist target. >> a new legal move is underway to improve a driver's view when backing up. several groups as well as parents are suing the u.s. department of transportation for failing to issue safety rules for rear view standards on new cars that might save some lives. we go live to the new york city newsroom with more. hi, brian. >> hi, greg. one of the parents who filed a lawsuit against the department of transportation on wednesday
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is from new york. in 2005 she hit and injured her 3-year-old daughter, kate, while backing out of her driveway. >> i ultimately hit her with the car, but was able to hear her screams and stopped the car and pulled forward and came back and found what i thought might be someone else's child lying on the driveway. she was bleeding literally from head to toe. her face was bleeding and she was hurt and she was screaming why did you hit me? i said i couldn't see you. >> luckily she didn't suffer life-threatening injuries, tbut changed her life for -- forever. she is part of a group suing the d.o.t. for not issuing a safety rule passed in 2008 which requires new cars to have improved rear view visibility specifically with rear view cameras by 2011. more than two years and four
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delays later the dot has yet to issue the safety rule. >> congress directed the regulation so there is a standard for all vehicles, not just those who can afford to add a camera on to their car either as they purchase it or to see when they are backing up. >> 292 people a year are killed by cars backing up. 18,000 are injured and 44% of the deaths are kids under the age of 5. the department of strains pour station -- transportation declined to comment, but the will lawsuit asks them to issue the rule within 90 days. greg? >> i use one of the rear view cameras and they are absolutely inavailable. invaluable. brian, thank you. >> a looming government shutdown could have a devastating impact on the fragile u.s. economy. coming up, how americans feel the pinch if washington shuts
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down tomorrow night.
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well, if the budget talks in washington break down as we are expecting tomorrow night, we are facing a complete or partial government shutdown. the effects will ripple through the u.s. economy some say and others say not so much. let's bring in brenda butner to hear what she has to say. she is the anchor of "bulls and bears." economic growth is fee bell, 2.5 % annual liesed. what impact would a shutdown have on growth? >> we have lots of estimates from a 10th of a percent to goldman sachs says .09 of a percent. it depends on how long the shutdown would be. if you look at the examples from the past, the last government shutdown we had which was long in 1995 and 1996.
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economic growth did take a hit, but then it went from 2.6% to 7.2%. that was at the beginning of the internet bubble. that said the economy then and the economy now is very different. we are barely growing as it is. >> job creation is awful and gdp is awful. it wouldn't take much to put us over the edge. we have one foot over the precipous already. >> it is has been no big deal to wall street basically. we have lost six out of the last seven trading sessions. >> but no huge loss. >> no, not at all. but what they are worried about is not so much the shutdown, but the fact that washington can't come together to prevent a shutdown. if they can't do that, there is another fiscal crisis much more important. >> the debt ceiling, middle of the month. you could be looking at credit rating down grades at
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default? >> the last time this happened in the summer of 2011, the dow went standard and pours down graded the u.s. credit rating. for the first time ever the dow went down more than 600 points in one day. 24r* were three weeks of triple digit swings. now five months later they were back to where they began. they did recover. this is much more serious. >> now, we are talking tomorrow night about only discretionary spending would stop and not mandatory spending. the military is paid and foot stamps and all of that. only nonessential workers, federal workers which one could argue is redundant would be furloughed. a lot of people say we need to do that. >> that is absolutely right. the government should be smaller. the economic impact of that is not so great. it is not that many people that will be laid off. it is more the fact the
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consumers will lose confidence. if they stop spending that is very dire for the economy. >> consumer spending is the engine of economic growth. it accounts of 70% of the gdp. people out there are going this makes me really worried about my 401k. >> wall street in the past has treated shutdowns -- it hasn't been a big deal. when ford and carter were presidents, i think they were -- it was more than 10 days of shutdowns then. they lost about 3% on average. it is not really a fear that wall street is going to get hit hard by the shutdown, but if there is -- if they can't agree on the debt ceiling that is when you really have to start to worry. >> did i hear you say there were 17 shutdowns in recent history. 17. >> and a lot were during the reagan administration. but they were over weekends when wall street doesn't
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trade. there was very little impact then. >> this second deadline, the debt ceiling, how worried are you about that? again if they can't reach an agreement now for the government budget boy that debt ceiling -- >> it is very serious. we have never defaulted. i can't see that there would be a default. >> arrange payments, prioritize the payment. >> if we couldn't pay the interest on our treasuries, the whole economy of the erld -- of the world would be at risk. we would be plunged into another recession i think. i think that's the most serious one they can't let go. >> i wonder if congress realizes the gravity of that. >> i think congress does. they are pushing for cutting spending which really in the end is what we have to do. we are talking about raising the debt ceiling. that means spending more even though the president says it doesn't. every time we raised it -- >> requires some judgment and intelligence that may be in short supply in that place called capitol hill.
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nice to see you. you can catch more of brenda on bulls and bears at 10:00 eastern here on the fox newschannel. israel's prime minister arrived at the white house tomorrow for a meeting with president obama and high on the agenda is iran. so how will president obama's conversation with benjamin netanyahu factor into their talks of the we will look at that next. :
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>> gregg: 24 hours from now theñi israeli prime minister, netanyahu, will arrive at the white house for a high-level meeting with president obama. on the agenda is iran.
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it is the one thing that critics say is a source of deep tension between the two leaders. national security advisor rice insisting that protecting israel from a nuclear iran is a top united states priority. take a listen. >> obviously, we are in constant cont
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doesn't take president obama seriously? they do not fear america will take action? >> that's because the president will hesitate to draw red lines again with netanyahu. that's what it will come down to, another four-letter word and that is time. that's where the gap is going to be. they will say let's give the iranian regime time to see if they can come to a resolution about this. israel will say time means spinning of centrifuges. >> and they could be six months away from breakout with a nuclear capacity which means in other words within weeks they could develop a nuclear weapon. we all remember the very dramatic present -- presentation. there it is. last year at the united nations he talked about and he
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is going to draw in a moment the red line and there it is on a nuclear bomb developed by iran. that has to have been shortened. will he lay it out when he meets with president obama? mr. president, here is how much time we have. >> i think privately he will have a strong message for the president. publicly when he comes to the u.n he will have to scale back a bit from his usual harsh approach as to not appear with the smiling rouhani. his message will be strong. for israel this is an threat and the regime is making threats about blowing israel off the map and still being -- death to america chants, that's what he was greeted with. >> with iran and the united states talking, now negotiating, does that mean israel will have to take action alone? >> if they have to, they will and that's what the prime
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minister will layout for us. we will have to do whatever it is to protect ourselves. >> lisa, should be an interesting couple of days. tomorrow is the meeting benjamin netanyahu and president obama on tuesday will speak. >> at the white house and then united nations. >> anticipated to be a very dramatic speech. as always, good to see you. that will do it for us. media buzz is coming up next. hope you have a great week, everybody. bye.
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